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WEDNESDAY 20 JULY 772.13 Surveys in policy makingTo be held on July 20, 2011 from: 11:00 to 12:30, in room 340.Coordinated by: Joan Font - Consejo Superior de Invesgaciones Cienficas (CSIC), Spain2.13.1 Community relaons in Northern Ireland: from survey to policyP. Devine 1 , G. Robinson 21 Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom; 2 University of Ulster, United KingdomThe paper will explore the role of survey research in policy making in Northern Ireland, with parcular referenceto community relaons (beer known internaonally as good relaons). Within a region such as NorthernIreland, which is emerging from 40 years of conflict, community relaons is a key policy area. In addion,with devoluon being a fairly recent event, community relaons policy making connues to be contested.The most recent policy consultaon on ’Cohesion, Sharing and Integraon’ is expected to report within thenext few months and has drawn heavily on atudinal survey data. Specifically, for more than 20 years publicatudes to community relaons has been recorded and monitored using two key surveys: Northern IrelandSocial Atudes Survey (1989-1996) and Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey (1998- present)...2.13.2 Survey and policies in a mullevel context: preliminary evidence from the Spanish caseJ. Font 2 , P. Alarcon 11 IESA (CSIC), Spain; 2 Consejo Superior de Invesgaciones Cienficas (CSIC), SpainFor which policies is survey informaon collected by public administraons? Does the opon for survey usedepend on the centrality of the policy in the public agenda, on the party ideology or on other factors? Whichkind of informaon and for which kinds of populaons is selected? Are the contents of surveys commissionedby public administraons different depending on the diverse territorial levels (local, regional, naonal)?2.13.3 Labour Market Data – New Challenges and User Needs in the Recent Economic CrisisK. Duspivova 1 , M. Zelený 11 University of Economics, Prague, Czech RepublicDuring the current economic crisis, the labour market has changed as a result of the negave spill-over effectof the banking sector crisis on other sectors. Exisng labour market problems became more serious andnew problems emerged. New user needs emerged among policy-makers, with new and urgent demand foraddional or new survey results because it became important to quanfy new labour market phenomenon inorder to be able to carry out labour market policy effecvely under these new condions.2.13.4 The Ulizaon of Public Opinion Research in Government: Policy Insights from Tobacco Control,Biotechnology and the Health Care Debate in CanadaL. Birch 1 , F. Pétry 1 , C. Allison Rothmayr 21 Université Laval, Canada; 2 Université de Montréal, CanadaThe Canadian federal government has invested extensively in public opinion research (POR) since the 1990s.The progressive development of policies governing the producon and use of POR in federal policy and managementwas accompanied by impressive budgets to support custom opinion research iniaves. While theDepartment of Public Works and Government Services oversees opinion research in the federal government,specialized POR units within departments coordinate the commissioning of surveys and focus groups on awide variety of subject maers. The instuonalizaon of POR at the scale of an enre government agencyresponsible for many very different programs allows us to describe POR, how it is used, by whom, and for whatpurpose, based on a large number of cases. We compare the producon and ulizaon of POR in three policyareas: 1. tobacco control; 2. biotechnologies and 3. the future of public health care in Canada...